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Upscale people are fixated with food simply because they are now able to eat so much of it without getting fat, and the reason they don't get fat is that they maintain a profligate level of calorie expenditure. The very same people whose evenings begin with melted goats cheese... get up at dawn to run, break for a mid-morning aerobics class, and watch the evening news while racing on a stationary bicycle.
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Usually I am not a conspiracy theorist. I don't believe in the Bilderbergers as a conspiracy or the Trilateralists. But I am certain that the Communists killed JFK. There is a super great book called 'Legend' by Edward Jay Epstein that makes it all perfectly clear.
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Usually, terrible things that are done with the excuse that progress requires them are not really progress at all, but just terrible things.
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Utility is the great idol of the age, to which all powers must do service and all talents swear allegiance.
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Valor is of no service, chance rules all, and the bravest often fall by the hands of cowards.
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Variety's the very spice of life, that gives it all its flavor.
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Vegetation is the basic instrument the creator uses to set all of nature in motion.
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Verily, great grace may go with a little gift; and precious are all things that come from a friend.
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Very few minds are strictly normal, and all religious fanatics are marked with abnormalities of various sorts.
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Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.
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Victims suggest innocence. And innocence, by the inexorable logic that governs all relational terms, suggests guilt.
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Viewed freely, the English language is the accretion and growth of every dialect, race, and range of time, and is both the free and compacted composition of all.
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Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a madhouse.
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Virtue must be valuable, if men and women of all degrees pretend to have it.
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Virtuous and vicious everyone must be; few in extremes, but all in degree.
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Voidness is that which stands right in the middle between this and that. The void is all-inclusive; having no opposite, there is nothing which it excludes or opposes. The all illuminating light shines and is beyond the movement of the opposites.
Source: Striking Thoughts (2000) -
Walking at random through the streets, we came by chance upon the Cathedral of Notre Dame. I shall long remember my first impression of the scene within. The lofty gothic ceiling arched far above my head and through the stained windows the light came but dimly - it was all still, solemn and religious.
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